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Nah, I did consider it, but it side-loads the rose joints noticeably under braking/acceleration. My plans to run the rose joints at the same angles they are on the IDF ones, but they'll be a 2 piece design, with a straight tube from the front rose joint to the ball-joint (which will be a 3/4" spherical bearing and a machined 'pin' to go into the hub to space the ball joint down). Then there will be a second piece going from the rear rose joint to meet the side of the first piece with a bolted joint that allows some pivoting. So the front rose joint will pretty much only adjust camber, and the rear one will pretty much only adjust castor.

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Within the context of performance; probably. But Prawn is clearly missing the way his car used to look but still wants 17" wheels for performance, he can have 90% of the looks with 90% of the performance with my wheels

Ive said it already, but THIS ^^^^^^^ car is fooking AWESOME, i knew it was gonna be quick, its so much quicker than i thought tho, the only car ive ever been in that i can compare the A3 to is a 6R4 metro, and i mean in everyway, the buckets, roll cage, the sound and then the way its trying to find grip, but best of all, everyone knows a 6R4 is quick, no one expects an A3 to be quick, its Awesome and a total credit to you dude

It was great to meet you, BigAl and Jenny today, thanks again for dinner that was lovely

Got the sandwich plate mounted and the filter back on, which gave me a chance to measure up for the hoses I need.

Cut them to length, then pressed the fittings into the hose with the aid of some boilling water and a firm grip:

These are apparently a mocal 'no clips' fitting. You just heat the hose in boilling water, then press it on with great force. The supplier did say that many people clamp them as a secondary measure too, so I decided to be safe rather than sorry.

Depending on your power goals, stock pistons are absolutely fine. Many people still run stock pistons at 450bhp.

Don't go low compression whatever you do, if you've got an S3, i'd say a set of AGU 9.5:1 CR pistons would be preferable.

Cooling wise, I run a 16 row mocal oil cooler to keep the oil cool, and I fitted a brand new standard rad when the new engine went in, but otherwise, it's absolutely fine!

I'm fairly sure Tuffty and welly both ran standard cooling systems at 400bhp+ as well! The stock system seems very over engineered.

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I am running a 300hp bam motor in the mgzs180 body shell (uber light and handles like a civic

like i said i have the agu head which i intend to rebuild with as many of the supertech valves from the bam head that arn't bent!

will strip the bottom end once i rip the motor apart but its stock bam apart from rods and a baffled sump so not sure if stock but new agu pistons will go straight in or have to go after market JE etc.

is it worth gettin the head flowed?

i intend to flow your example and get it flowing as best a possible, its running 1.6bar atm and things are gettin to hot for my liking so if i can get it around 330fwhp and reduce egt's then happy i will be.

Fire extinguisher's a very cool thing to have, and it'll be lovely having the piece of mind of knowing it's in there. Looked like a really smart system you've got for it too, absolutely ideal for your use. Good luck fitting it, it looked like it'd be fairly straight-forward and it seemed like you'd already got most of it planned in your head.

It was great to get a few rides in the car, shame the weather prevented any real power getting to the ground, I could still get a feel for how insane the car is though.

Shame we couldn't take mine out more, it seems to have fixed its self now but it's developed another fault now. The good news is that fixing this new fault will be best done by jumping straight into the mods I was talking about with the suspension and brakes.

Time attack sounds fun. Where did you get you solid sub frame bushes from as I'm thinking of fitting some when I fit my front ARB? Glad you had a good Christmas. I'm hoping to go to the RR day on Saturday it'll be good to have a look at your car then.

Time attack sounds fun. Where did you get you solid sub frame bushes from as I'm thinking of fitting some when I fit my front ARB? Glad you had a good Christmas. I'm hoping to go to the RR day on Saturday it'll be good to have a look at your car then.

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